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From: Lynn Starun
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:52:21 GMT
Subject: [Baren 40921] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V50 #5189 (Mar 29, 2010)
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Message 2
From: Darrell Madis
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:00:26 GMT
Subject: [Baren 40922] Baren members websites
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Subject: Exhibition photos online ...
Posted by: Dave Bull
A small collection of photos from the exhibition is now online. I'll try and get the video version tomorrow ... not sure if I'll have time ... |
This item is taken from the blog Woodblock RoundTable.
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Subject: SGC Philadelphia Trip - Day 1
Posted by: Annie B
Last week I took a few days off to attend the Philadelphia SGC Conference, titled "Mark Remarque." I attended this annual conference once before, in Richmond VA in 2008, but since I was pretty new to printmaking in '08 I didn't know a soul at the Richmond conference. Although I enjoyed the content of that conference immensely I was uncomfortable socially. This year's Philadelphia conference was very different for me. Two years later I've made many contacts in the field, both online and locally, so I was at no loss for people to pal around with. It was wonderful to meet folks that I've known only virtually up until now, and it was also great to hang out with people from my local print studio, Zea Mays Printmaking. SGC Philadelphia also differed from SGC Richmond in that a huge city-wide print festival called Philagrafika 2010 was in progress during the conference. This raised the level of work that was on display markedly and made it seem as if the SGC conference was taking place all over the city. But before I went to Philly I stopped in New York to meet with Berlin-based artist/printmaker Eva Pietzcker and a print collector that I had made contact with in November through the IPCNY New Prints show. We had agreed to meet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which doesn't allow suitcases in the coat check room, so since I was rolling into Penn Station on Amtrak I needed to check my suitcase somewhere. I found a spot on W 36th Street and on my way out I noticed Dieu Donné, the nonprofit papermaking workshop. A series of glowing displays had caught my eye and a closer look revealed that they were watermark "drawings" by William Kentridge from an artists book called Sheets of Evidence. (The exhibit is up through April 24.) I spent about 20 minutes soaking in the work, then continued to make my way to the Met. I was early for our . . . [Long item has been trimmed at this point. The full blog entry can be viewed here] |
This item is taken from the blog Woodblock Dreams.
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Subject: Letterpress Type
This item is taken from the blog Against the grain.
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